On the uses of empathy

2016-02-05

Image analysis, natural language processing, behavior prediction, strategic algorithms. Your job is technically mundane; your boyfriend, a UI designer, would get the gist.

If the DoD firing you for talking weren't the least terrifying consequence imaginable.

The most terrifying one involves what your code is used _for_. You hate your nightmares, yet wake up pondering if knowing how the AI guiding your "driverless enhanced interrogation" works would make things worse.

You've began to add the option to your code, and the knot in your stomach is so constant a companion that you don't feel noticeably worse.